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So I made a post recently about the MS68 and MS69 1993 WTC silver eagle that it is a very rare coin with only about 120 coins in its population found at the WTC. Well I am starting to see people on E-bay calling the 1993 Gem Uncirculated coin very rare, and as most of you know following E-bay auctions on these coins know, that is not the case. The WTC 1993 Gem Uncirculated coins is very often up on E-bay going for anywhere between $70 to $140. Well after my posting I am seeing the 1993 Gem Uncirculated coin show up with buy it now of $230. The 1993 Gem Uncirculated coin is not any more rare than the 2001 Gem Uncirculated $1 silver coin from the World trade center. Just to make that clear to everybody. So people saying that the 1993 Gem Uncirculated is 10 times more rare than the 2001 WTC Gem Uncirculated does not know what they are talking about.

The 2001 $1 Silver Eagle MS69 is a little more rare than the 2001 BU but its still a coin that can still be found on E-bay or other online auction places. The coin is very collectable as its the year of the 9-11 attacks. If I could only buy one coin and did not have the money for the gold coins this would be the coin I would buy. As a matter of a fact this was the first WTC recovery coin I ever bought. There is a section on this blog dedicated to the appreciation in value of this coin as its represents a part of the WTC recovery coins with the most appeal for people just wanting to have one coin from the vault.

A coin dealer was offering the following in 2004:

1/10 gold coin and a Liberty Silver dollar, both PCGS MS69, they had 198 sets of these available, and the coins are dated 2001. Price for both coins in 2004 $425.

Great looking coin in BU condition the 1999 $50 gold is very scares in MS69 but nobody really knows what the population in uncirculated BU condition. The coins when they first came to PCGS for certification as WTC recovered coins all coins where certified the same as uncirculated BU coins it was not until later in the process that PCGS started giving the coins a grade like they would normally do with a coin that got a certification. If anybody reads this has a population number on this coin or any other coin on this web site please let me know.

So that is what I want to do is to collect full sets of coins from one year where I have all of them in a series. With all the different coins out there in limited numbers its a real accomplishment when you finally get a full set. So because these coins are so limited and sometimes a coin in a certain series haven't been found so it makes impossible to get the whole series. Let take a look at what can be done. First you could collect an Gem uncirculated Gold or Platinum series from a given year, you could also try and get a MS69 series from any year. Without population on these coins it does make it hard to do. Well what about all the $1 silver Eagles that came out of The World Trade center in BU or MS69. You could use this page as a reference to what coin years that are out there. What about an international series maybe collecting Canada Marble Leaf gold coins from 2001 or 2000. As this site gets more updated with coins that was fund at ground zero it will make it easier to find out what is possible to collect. Right now you see a coin on E-Bay and then you start thinking if the other coins in that year is also available. Some people know this information and as soon as I find out I will post it here.

I am very new to collecting this kind of historic coin like the WTC Ground Zero coins are so I need information and I need lots of it. I will find it but it might take some time, but one thing is for sure I will never forget what happened on 9-11-2001.